Standard passport applications take at least 3 weeks and costs Â£72.50, or Â£81.25 via the Post Office's Passport Check and Send service. Priority service is available for an additional fee. If you have any time remaining on your current passport, up to an additional 9 months will be added.
3. perverse-deviating from what is considered moral or right or proper or good; depraved criminals; a perverted sense of loyalty; the reprobate conduct of a gambling aristocrat. depraved, reprobate, perverted.
By Richard Nordquist. Definition: In rhetoric, a roundabout description of something-- verbosity. A form of circumlocution, periphrasis is commonly considered a stylistic vice. Adjective: periphrastic. See also the grammatical term periphrastic. See Examples and Observations below. Also see: 1  Campaign to Cut the Clutter: Zinsser's Brackets.